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Sneak peek: Who are the Colonels?

We'll be learning a lot about the Eastern Kentucky Colonels this week, in the days leading up to the NCAA Tournament matchup between the No. 15 seed out of the Ohio Valley Conference and the No. 2-seeded Kansas Jayhawks — Friday at 3:10 p.m., in St. Louis, Mo.

EKU only has two double-digit scorers for KU to worry about, but three more players average a hair under 10, and the Colonels' sixth-leading scorer puts up more than eight points a night, so there is some balance to their attack:

G — Glenn Cosey, 18.8 ppg

G — Corey Wladen, 14.1 ppg

G — Marcus Lewis, 9.9 ppg

G — Orlando Williams, 9.6 ppg

G — Tarius Johnson, 9.5 ppg

F — Eric Stutz, 8.4 ppg

Playing in the one-bid OVC, in which Eastern Kentucky went 11-5 (second place in the East division, third-best mark in the league) didn't provide the Colonels with much high-level competition. But they did venture into some challenging non-conference matchups, including an 86-61 loss at Wisconsin in mid-December.

Comments

Basically it's the Michigan playbook they run, Jeff Neubauer was with John Beilein for 8 seasons. Should be a higher scoring game, KU should win easy unless they make a ton of threes. I would expect KU to face a zone all game.